Securityfocus used to do this. Symantec bought them, and I'm not sure if they continue to offer the service, but they still create BIDs, so I'd assume so. Subsc

Securityfocus used to do this. Symantec bought them, and I'm not sure if they continue to offer the service, but they still create BIDs, so I'd assume so. Subscribers got an interface that let them choose what software/versions they care about, and they would get alerts based on that. I think Secunia either has or had a similar service. A few more are mentioned in this article from 2005. I'm not sure how many are still up and running. It seems like a few businesses attempted this but it didn't work out well. Oddly, people were excited about this ~8 years ago and most companies got acquired and it seems like it died out. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MVkOyWa_VXwJ:www.networkworld.com/reviews/2005/012405revvuln.html+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=ubuntu https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MVkOyW...